07-10-2013, 04:29 PM
My father had the same problem with an O Scale Interurban with a set of trucks that he picked up at a traction meet. He ended up drilling a hole where he wanted the journal to rest, put in tubing to act as a journal rolling bearing, and filled in the old hole with epoxy. The ruling grade for the interurban line in the train club that he belonged to had something like an 8 or 10% grade. The interurbans were weighed heavily for tractive effort to make it up the grade.
Mike Kieran
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.
Port Able Lines
" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be " - Yogi Berra.